Hours before the card was set to air on Pay-Per-View, it was announced that original headliner and UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker suffered a hernia and a later reported collapsed bowel, forcing him to undergo emergency surgery, cancelling his fight against Kelvin Gastelum.

That number comes as a sharp drop of the 700,000 buys from their last not-cancelled Pay-Per-View UFC 232, where Jon Jones would regain the UFC light heavyweight title in a stoppage victory over Alexander Gustafsson.